As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

